^I don't think the Bransons really need the Windsors. As far as I can tell it's a symbiotic relationship. Bransons got the cache of socializing with the Windsors and the Windsors got free holidays, etc. (we all know how they luv luv luv their freebies). I'm pretty sure DC met the Bransons thru Bea (not the other way around).

Good point, but the Bransons have been slavering on royalty since even before Diana; I do think Branson DREAMED of a royal match.

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^^ & ^ I agree on both points. Branson w/o a doubt looked for the royal connection at some point (the beginning of his ascend, like everyone else), but now he doesn't really need it anymore/ the symbiotic relationship has trumped his intial aspirations. He may have dreamt about a marriage between one of his sprogs and one of the Winds, but I bet he feels he and his family are much better off as it is, he's a smart man and I don't think for a second that he thinks dreamily about any of those "what ifs".

Bill may have spotted the user that is Dave C., but he failed to spot the countless other users who hang on to him and his family, he even married one of them. So much for his (by his own words) infallible hangers-on-radar.. But we all know that even a broken clock strikes right twice.

1. Do not have a fat bank account 2. Are rich, but not willing to foot his bills3. Seem rich, but don't live poshly and entertain (him and his family specifically) in a grand manner

He married Kate because she seemed rich and so he took the view that she was worthy of his chivalry; if Kate hadn't seemed well off, he would have used and dropped her and as much as I dislike Kate, no one really deserves that kind of mistreatment.

As for Beatrice, I think she's still hurting and would just prefer to stay single. Branson was giving Dave a lot while he was dating Beatrice, but I think Branson would have DIED if his son Sam had been courting Beatrice. I do think that Branson had regal ambitions, I can say that much.

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^You're right, no one deserves that kind of treatment, not even Waity. Too bad she herself is guilty of exactly that behavior. You would think all this mistreatment and abuse would make her kinder somehow, but no. Just shows there is zero self-reflection there.

Dave Clark married partner of two years Lynn Anderson at the Puglian resort of Borgo Egnazia on Saturday The venue costs €150,000 a day to hire out and guests included Sara Sampaio and Ashton Kutcher Dave split with Princess Beatrice in 2016, and the royal spent Saturday on a beach in Saint Tropez

Not only does Princess Beatrice have to cope with her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, getting married before her, but now her long-term former boyfriend, Dave Clark, is parading his glamorous new wife around town.

Former Uber executive Clark, 33, who courted Bea, 30, for ten years until 2016, made his public debut in London this week with American businesswoman Lynn Anderson, 32.

The couple, who married in Italy last month, showed off their suntans as they visited one of Bea’s favourite watering holes, the Chiltern Firehouse in Marylebone.

So he moved on, so what? After the breakup he was no longer under any obligation to her and doesn't owe it to Beatrice to drop off the face of the earth.

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